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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Minimalist Lake Jasper home has multi-use bleachers instead of your typical furniture

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The compact cube shape of the home was strategically chosen in order to not only reduce the building’s footprint, but also allow for a more economical and efficient use of materials and to help in reducing energy usage. Additionally, the architects went local for a lot of the home’s materials, such as the white cedar siding, which was sourced from a local saw mill.

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Related: Gorgeous Flathead Lake Cabin is a Minimalist Home for the True Adventurer

Looking to reduce the home’s energy use, the structure was built on an elevated slope, and strategically orientated to allow for natural ventilation. Optimal air circulation is achieved thanks to the front windows that open at the bottom and the rear windows that open at the top, providing a cross draft throughout the home.

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Although the compact shape and natural appearance of the design may seem simple from the outside, the interior design may leave one a bit bewildered. Attached to the main interior structure, multi-use bleachers serve as versatile structural elements that can be reconfigured as seating, tables, bookshelves, reading areas, and of course, steps.

The bleachers are located throughout the home’s common areas. Standing at the top of the stairs from the lake house, one can enjoy the incredible views of the natural landscape. In the kitchen, the bleachers are used as food preparation areas and tables with seating up to eight people. Throughout the home, the bleachers give the home a customized feel, inviting residents and guest to make their own private space or enjoy a group gathering.

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Photography by James Brittain Photography


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Defra halves local air pollution funding

The government's grant scheme to help English councils tackle air pollution has seen its funding cut in half compared to last year.

A release published last week by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) and first reported in the Guardian reveals that 12 councils will receive a total of £500,000 through the grant, which goes to a wide variety of projects from electric charging points to contaminant monitoring stations.

Last year the grant stood at £1m, while the funding for the 2011-12 grant was £3m. Leeds, London, Manchester and Southampton together received the lion's share of the funding.

In a landmark case last year, environmental law firm ClientEarth won a Supreme Court case that forced the government to publish strict plans to crack down on the UK's high levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution.

Alan Andrews, a lawyer at ClientEarth, said the amount currently being spent by government on air pollution is inadequate. "The money currently on the table is peanuts when compared to the scale of Britain's air quality crisis and the costs it imposes on the NHS," he said in an emailed statement.

"Despite the Supreme Court ordering them to take immediate action the government is still trying to shirk responsibility by passing the problem down to local authorities while starving them of the funding they need to tackle it. George Osborne needs to make a major investment in clean public transport in towns and cities throughout the UK."

However a Defra spokeswoman insisted tackling air pollution is still a priority for the government, and said the cuts must be looked at in the context of the overall picture of how it is supporting action on air quality.

"Our air quality plans, published last year, clearly set out how we will improve the UK's air quality through a new programme of Clean Air Zones and national action," she said in a statement. "We also continue to investment [sic] in clean technologies - committing £2bn since 2011 - to create cleaner, healthier air for all."

ClientEarth last month warned the government that it would urgently seek further court action if present plans - under which it will take at least five years to clean up pollution in several cities including Manchester, Cardiff and Edinburgh - were not strengthened.


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HOW TO: Recycle a sweater into a cuddly pillow for your couch


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Making pillows out of old sweaters is easy to do, and has the double bonus of upcycling materials, and making your house even cozier.

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What You’ll Need:

  • Two old sweaters, large enough to fit your desired pillows (if you don’t have any old sweaters in your closet, try a thrift shop. Wash and dry the sweaters before you start.)
  • Two or more throw pillows with their slipcovers removed
  • Sewing machine
  • Thread, scissors, pins, needles, colored pencil or chalk, ruler or measuring tape
  • Four buttons

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Button Pillow Step 1: Measure and Mark

For the buttoned pillowcase, start by smoothing out and pinning together the two sides of the bottom hem – this will form the opening of the pillowcase. Pinning will keep the sweater hem from stretching out and getting misshapen when you sew it.

With a colored pencil or chalk, use a ruler or measuring tape to mark out a square that is approximately ½ inch larger than your pillow measurements on all sides. For the button pillow, we only needed to cut two sides of the sweater to create the right size square: the bottom hem forms the opening, and the right seam we left intact.

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Button Pillow Step 2: Sew And Cut Sides

Using a wide straight stitch, slowly sew the seam you just marked on the two sides of the square, being cautious not to stretch the sweater too much, which can pucker the seam. Trim off the excess sweater material, close to the seam you just created.

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Once you’ve cut out the complete square, finish the newly cut seam edges with a zig-zag or overlock stitch, to keep the sweater seam from unraveling.

Read More: Re Rag Rug Creates Gorgeous Rugs From Recycled Thrift Store Sweaters

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Button Pillow Step 3: Add Buttons

Turn the pillow right-side out and remove the pins along the hem. Measure out and mark a spot for 4 equally spaced buttons along the inside edge hem of the sweater. Use a needle and thread to hand sew the buttons on. Next, mark out four corresponding spots on the upper hem with a pin. Using scissors, snip a tiny hole and unravel it just large enough for each button. Use a needle and thread to hand sew the edge of the buttonhole so the yarn doesn’t continue to unravel. 

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Button Pillow Step 4:  Finish Pillow

Place the pillow inside the new pillowcase and button it shut – you’re done!

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Envelope Pillow Step 1: Measure and Mark

Unlike the button pillow, you’ll be cutting three pieces for this version. Start by using a colored pencil or chalk and a ruler to mark out a square that is approximately ½ inch larger than your pillow measurements on just the front half of the sweater (or the part you intend to use for the front of the pillow). Cut this piece out, but be careful not to cut through both layers like you did for the button pillow

Next, measure out two overlapping pieces – we used the sweater’s border here – to form the envelope back. The two pieces must overlap at least 3-5 inches, and when overlapped, should form the same measurements as above (a square approximately ½ inch wider than the pillow measurements).

Read More: DIY Pocket Handwarmers for Chilly Days

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Envelope Pillow Step 2: Create Pillow Back

Pin together the envelope back with the two pieces overlapped 3-5 inches. Ensure that you have them aligned evenly, then pin securely together. Stitch the side seams together just where the two pieces overlap.

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Envelope Pillow Step 3: Sew Pillow Together

Place the two pieces together, right sides together, and pin securely. Slowly sew all four edges of the pillow together using a wide straight stitch, moving slowly so as not to pucker the fabric too much. Finish the edges of all four seams with a zig zag stitch to prevent the sweater from unraveling.

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Envelope Pillow Step 4:  Finish Pillow

Turn the pillow right side out through the envelope opening. Insert the pillow and smooth it shut.

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Toss your cozy new cushions on your bed, a chair, or the couch and enjoy!

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INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Talks to IKEA’s Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard

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Why does IKEA care about sustainability? Kind of a hard question…

Steve Howard: I’m going to give you a slightly long answer, if that’s okay. Long but structured. We have many businesses that have been around for any length of time, and we’ve got strong sustainable values in our culture. We’ve also got a vision that was set up more than 30 years ago by our founder. And the vision is to help create a better every day life for many people. So you’ve got people thinking how can you get a better more functional sofa at a lower price so the family in – whether it’s Cincinnati or Shanghai – that’s moving into an apartment can have a great sofa to sit on. We’re motivated by that. And that vision naturally structures to sustainability. And then you also want to continue to lower prices and then you actually look to efficiency in a big way. So efficiency is a great proxy for the long part of the sustainability – if you can be breathtakingly efficient. I’ll give you a couple of examples of where it connects really well.

We have a lamp called the Vidja lamp and there was a design challenge there. As we redesign products we put them through a score card. With that, we eliminated 24 out of 33 elements. Clever design, we did. We lowered the weight of the product by about a half. We also reduced packaging by nearly a third in that product. We also slashed the amount of cotton – mixing it with viscose. The product was better, it was lighter and we lowered the price by more than a third to the customer. So it actually fundamentally changed the footprint of our product. The other thing – we could actually ship 128 of the lamps on a pallet rather than 80. If you can imagine from a fuel efficiency point of view – in one year you could effectively get a 60% increase in fuel efficiency just by the way you design things and pack them. But we take that across the entire range. So it’s good business sense. And then there’s a sort of values driven element.

Obviously no one’s perfect – we’re a good company, with good people doing good things for good reasons overall. So people are well-motivated, and we know that there are four numbers in sustainability. One and half planets – you’ve heard it at the conference here – one and a half planets of consumption today. We can’t carry on for too much longer so we use lots of resources. We have to be really mindful of where they come from and to make sure we secure sustainable forests or farmlands. We have to take a lead on that otherwise, you know, with one and a half planets of consumption, it’s not going to be there for future generations or for the next generation of IKEA. The next number is three billion – three billion extra consumers by 2030. We have two billion consumers today – two billion people in the global middle class. That swells by three billion to five billion by 2030. Six is the next number – six degrees warmer.

If you just take those three numbers and think, “Okay we’re expecting six degrees warming, three billion extra consumers on one and a half planet’s resources – this shapes the business landscape. So [sustainability has] gone from “it would be nice to do” to an absolutely business-critical thing to do. And as soon as I explain that, or my colleagues explain that anywhere in the business – we have a conversation and everybody will say, “What can we then do? How can we help our customers live a more sustainable life at home with super low priced LEDs or induction stoves. How can we help design efficiency and renewable materials and recyclability into products? How can we make our operations completely sustainable? That’s why we are going for 100% renewable energy – we actually own and operate wind farms in six countries now.

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And just in our Beijing store actually with PV, we’re rolling out solar panels across there. We’ve done most of our U.S. stores and distribution centers. We’ve got the biggest solar installations in 10 U.S. states.

In the U.S., 85 percent of our facilities have PV. Then we top it up around the world with wind power off-site where we own and operate wind power. That future brings us business – wouldn’t you rather have energy from the sun and the wind, with no impact, where you’ve got price predictably for the future and there’s no danger of the wind running out or the sun running out than to get it from the the old fossil fuels?And it’s good business sense for us to do it. It also feels good to do the right thing. Our customers want to do it, our co-workers want to do it. It’s investing in the future. I can’t think of one single reason why we wouldn’t do it.

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And, speaking of which, do you see that your customers want recyclable products or products made from recycled materials?

Steve Howard: Yes. We actually see that IKEA customers care more than non-IKEA customers about sustainability. I don’t actually fully know the reason for that and you’ll see that’s a universal truth whether you’re in the US, Sweden or China. I think it’s a big issue and concern outside of daily life for people. But most people – generally – don’t want to pay more for it. People might say they’ll pay a premium, but we don’t want to charge people a premium. We’d like to get the most sustainable products to be the cheapest products. We’ll invest aggressively to do that.

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So, would you say that your sustainable products are as cheap as your other products?

Steve Howard: Well, if you just take the Vidja lamp that I mentioned, where we lowered the price about 34%, that’s a great example. We did the same thing with the more sustainable products from previous generations – take the Ektorp sofa. You flat pack the Ektorp sofa, so it takes the customer 15 minutes to re-assemble it. We can lower the price five, ten dollars because you can suddenly ship three or four times as many sofas. So, you’ve actually just completely destroyed the cost of transport. You’ve taken it apart. So the customer’s part is 15 minutes to put the sofa back up. The sofa’s going to last just as long, it’s just as good, just as comfortable and you can lower the price as well as saving a huge amount of emissions. So in our world sustainability is almost always the right thing to do, but also from a straightforward cost point.

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Well, we’re certainly very impressed with that, but if you’re going to have three billion more customers, then what about the consumption issue? And some people feel that IKEA products can, you know, sometimes break a little easier? How are you trying to solve that issue of longevity?

Steve Howard: I think that’s a totally fine question. We actually have a sustainability structure which is called People & Planet Positives. We put a line in there and we mean every word of it. Really, every word in that document to be published externally. We’ve talked about the durability fitting the purpose. So like, your toilet brush doesn’t need to last 100 years.

Right. Nor would you want it to. Haha.

Steve Howard: Right, nor would you want it to. You know, we’ve got a 25-year guarantee on mattresses, 25-year guarantee on kitchens. So for us, it’s about making sure we are in the right place with people, so we’ve got also to try and fit. The difficult thing is if you are talking about – right at them bottom of the price model – and this for a family struggling with very low income, or students, or somebody who’s in an expensive city by themselves, when we get to allow people to have a super cheap wardrobe, really, where they can have storage rather than hanging their clothes on a rack or something. Then how durable do you make that product? So we are asking those questions ourselves. But for the majority of range, we’ve got this – 25 years is long enough for a mattress. It might be too long. I think about this when I go to a hotel room. How many people have slept in that bed? More than I’d like. Make sure we’ve got that durability absolutely right and it’s explicitly understood. We’re really – to be honest – we openly talk about that. A coffee table – with care – it should last forever. You’re not designing in redundancy and we’ve redesigned LACK. If it doesn’t deliver durability then we will find another solution to make it green. We obsess about it. And then we need to look at how can we go for the reuse or the recyclability and this is sort of the next wave for us. So we’re looking at not just how do we design for recyclability. Putting that through our entire range now, how do we guarantee that it actually does get recycled? In different markets we’re doing same thing with the LED lights or with plastic garden furniture. Early stage piloting issues are getting resolved now – you’ll see a lot more of that over the next five years.

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We’ve been following IKEA for quite some time now. What are IKEA’s next steps? What is in the future for the brand?

Steve Howard: What I’d like us to be where every IKEA customer is able to point to a product that they really like and are proud of, but that they know is helping them save energy and not waste water. Some of the work we’ve done with customers – this is not expensive stuff, these are simple things that involve improvements. That you can actually save as much as 30 percent on your energy bills and that’s – for most people – that’s like a five to ten percent pay rise. Induction tops – stove tops – are so much more efficient. It cooks faster. So actually it’s a pleasure to watch your pan of water boil because it boils so much faster. So efficiency saves you time. So not only do you get a ten percent pay rise, you also get at the same time about 48 hours of reduced cooking time per year. So sustainability can give you a pay rise and give you two days of your life back.

We want everybody – all of our customers around the world – to be part of what we talked a lot before about how we really do look for extending product life and the new business puzzles around that. We’re making sure we’ve got really innovative ways of reuse of remanufacturing and recycling.

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5 Stunning Modern Homes from Alexander Gorlin

Modern Nova Scotia home overlooking the ocean.

In our February issue, on newsstands now, we detailed how architect Alexander Gorlin was revamping Eero Saarinen's masterpiece Bell Labs (now Bell Works). Here we take a peek at some of Gorlin's residential projects, which range from the Nova Scotia coast to the Rocky Mountains.

January 31, 2016

Aerial view of The High Line in New York City

In our February issue, we speak to Ryan Gravel, whose idea to transform Atlanta’s system of abandoned railroads into a thriving urban greenway was the impetus for the city's BeltLine project. The massive undertaking will convert a 22-mile loop of infrastructure into much-needed public space. Here, we take a look at similar projects in other cities, some of which helped inspire the details of the Atlanta plan.

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Nancy Kennedy custom loom

Take a tour of weaver Nancy Kennedy's California studio. Then, discover more design talent from around the USA in our Modern Across America issue, on newsstands now.

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A soft palette makes a seamless dining room.

Since founding his studio in 2008, Seattle-based interior designer Brian Paquette (@brianpaquetteinteriors) has completed a range of residential and commercial projects in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. His feed reveals his preference for muted colors, plush seating, and statement lighting, and captures his varied inspirations, from 20th-century French designer Jean Royère to contemporaries such as Ilse Crawford.  

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White honed Calacatta marble countertops with clerestory window in Melbourne renovation's kitchen.

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Alfi chairs by Jasper Morrison for Emeco

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Driveway and front door to the Netherlands dune house

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Historic Montreal home painted black

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Red POÄNG chairs from IKEA in Berkeley cottage by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop.

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Modern West Village renovation with green roof

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Cholguán office dividers

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PV14 Dallas House Roof Deck

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New Zealand home with anodized aluminum louvers by the master bedroom

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Go Hasegawa’s design gently communicates with the surrounding dense forest.

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Outdoor hangout and waterfall at a Manhattan penthouse

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Denver home with setback top floor to create roof deck space.

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Minimal floating home in Copenhagen

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Dining room with sliding doors to garden in Brooklyn renovation by Elizabeth Roberts.

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Allison Burke's Austin Home Renovation, Living Room

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Architect Barbara Bestor Los Angeles tile bathroom

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Durham, North Carolina home with stucco and Hardie board exterior

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White pine clad bedroom

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superior logic exterior open glass house

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twisted sister tom givone dwell store facade exterior porch

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Red cedar-clad Denver home.

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Modern outdoor pool with furniture

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Amsterdam kitchen with hot-rolled steel cabinetry

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Joint bathroom and bedroom with a Neptune bathtub and wall art

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